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Killed with CO2 gas, which causes irritation of the respiratory tract, causing enormous stress and atrocious suffering, and then being loaded en masse onto trucks for disposal.This is the fate that has befallen him in recent days hundreds of pigs in six farms in Northern Italy, within which swine fever is rapidly spreading - a disease not dangerous for humans, but highly lethal for pigs - and which is putting a total of 15 thousand animals at risk in various regions of the country.These cruelties were documented by the investigative team of theessere animali association, which published the images referring to the killings of pigs in three of the six farms affected by the virus, located in the provinces of Pavia and Novara, pointing the finger at the poor management of the emergency by institutions and trade associations. In detail, the videos created by the activists ofessereanimali, shot using a drone, show the bodies of pigs knocked down by gas, which is highly irritating to the res...

The collection of signatures, promoted by the Respect for All Animals association, for five referendums on the protection of fauna and the environment in the Italian regions.Specifically, the questions at the center of the campaign propose the abolition of hunting, the possibility of hunters entering private funds, intensive farming and animal testing, as well as the use of animals in historical events, in circuses and inside the zoos.The proposals, which they have already collected thousands of subscriptions, can be signed through the SPID - or, alternatively, ADN, CIE and CNS - on the new State platform for popular initiatives (to this end link). With the first two questions, the association Respect for all animals he asks Of "make the cruel and polluting practice of hunting illegal, now obsolete, no longer significant for the existence of the human being" and of "to forbid entry into private funds by hunters", which is currently foreseen by law "even without...

Investigations for pollution, trials for environmental disasters, analyzes that detected Pfas in the blood of the citizens of Alessandria and even the production stop imposed in June were not enough:after less than a month and a half, the chemical center Syensqo (formerly Solvay) received authorization from the Province to resume the production and use of Pfas cC604, a substance classified as toxic to humans.The news was given by the Environment councilor of the municipality of Alessandria Giorgio Laguzzi - who explained that the decision would have been taken on the basis of data presented by the company and by Arpa analyzes - and the former councilor Claudio Lombardi, who however, he denounced that everything would have happened based on «checks and activities carried out by an expert appointed by Solvay». The reaction from environmental associations and the Stop Solvay committee was immediate, who sent a letter of concern to the Piedmont Region asking for immediate actio...

At the beginning of July the Sardinian regional council has approved a moratorium that blocks the authorization of new plants for the extraction of renewable energy.A decision, although judged timid and not very decisive in the terms in which it was adopted, which represents the first victory of a vast movement born and grown in recent months which defines itself as "against energy speculation" and against "the assault of multinationals" to the Sardinian territory.A movement that is not satisfied and demands that the already approved projects, which are filling Sardinia with wind and solar plants that will serve not to generate energy for the territory, but to make the region a center for energy exports, also be stopped towards mainland Italy and abroad.Also taking part in the protest are over 60 companies and guides dealing with sustainable and naturalistic tourism, who have sent a letter to explain the reasons for their protest.We have decided to publish it in ful...

The Federation of Italian Steel Companies (Federacciai) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the French group EDF and the Italians Edison, Ansaldo Energia and Ansaldo Nucleare with the aim of making Italy «the first nation in Europe and in the world to produce steel “green” thanks to an energy mix that includes nuclear power».The signatories will evaluate the co-investment opportunities in new nuclear power and, in particular, in the creation of small modular reactors (SMR) in Italy.The agreement, although signed in a country like Italy, where the use of nuclear energy was rejected by two referendums in 1987 and 2011, appears in line with the National Energy Climate Plan (PNIEC) of our country, with which the Meloni government has announced it wants to cover with nuclear power 11% of the national energy mix by 2050. The formal purpose ofagreement consists in making Italy a leader in sustainable steel production, or “green steel” For thi...

While the tourist season is in full swing, it is now impossible to swim on the coast of Orbetello due to the presence of thousands of dead fish on the surface of the water.I am already over one hundred quintals of carcasses collected, while the dense, brown water flows out of the lagoon and into the Tyrrhenian Sea, making the beaches inhospitable, where there are such high levels of Escherichia coli and intestinal enterococci that they have pushed the authorities to prevent bathing.The mayor of the Tuscan town he called for a state of calamity and aid from the government.According to experts, two factors caused the disaster:fertilizers and the extremely warm temperature of the waters. From the first light of dawn on Saturday 27 July, operators have been busy monitoring, controlling and collecting fish carcasses in Tuscan waters, also with the aid of small boats.Orbetello is a lagoon with poor water circulation:for this reason, the fertilizers used in the fields that flow into the sea e...

Not only in Sardinia, the great works of the so-called "green energy" have arrived throughout Italy, starting from the south and reaching the center.This is the case of Tuscany, where for a year now citizens, committees and environmental groups have been fighting to preserve the the Mugello area is already at risk.The project for the Tuscany Region is always the same:planting towers 170 meters high, «as high as two Giotto bell towers one on top of the other», in natural areas close to the mountain, close to protected reserves, with reinforced concrete bases the size of half a football field. Land consumption, serious impact on the environment, hydrogeological instability, these are some of the risks faced by Mugello, reported by a group of groups in one open letter against wind speculation.Among these, the Committee for the protection of the Mugello ridges, one of the associations active in defense of the territory, which explained to The Independent the situation...